An integrated multiomics approach to identify candidate antigens for serodiagnosis of human onchocerciasis

Molecular and Cellular Proteomics

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 3224-3233

  McNulty, Samantha N ^a   Rosa, Bruce A ^a   Fischer, Peter U ^a   Rumsey, Jeanne M ^a   Erdmann Gilmore, Petra ^a   Curtis, Kurt C ^a   Specht, Sabine ^b   Townsend, R Reid ^a   Weil, Gary J ^a   Mitreva, Makedonka ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G ANTIBODY; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS ANTIGEN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS PROTEIN; PARASITE ANTIGEN; PARASITE RNA; PROTEIN; PROTEOME; RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY AFFINITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LOA LOA; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOMICS; QUADRUPOLE MASS SPECTROMETRY; RNA SEQUENCE; SERODIAGNOSIS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; WUCHERERIA BANCROFTI; ANIMAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; GENOMICS; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; SEROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; DATABASES, GENETIC; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENOMICS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; ONCHOCERCA VOLVULUS; ONCHOCERCIASIS; SEROLOGIC TESTS;

EID: 84948678492     PISSN: 15359476     EISSN: 15359484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1074/mcp.M115.051953     Document Type: Article

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